Alexis Castro Soto del Valle, the greatest of thefive children of Fidel Castro with Dalia Soto del Valle, asked the prime minister for public explanationsManuel Marrero Cruz about promised economic measures, as well as accountability for “mistakes made.”
Castro Soto del Valle asked five specific questions with which he said he was “respectfully exposing doubts that the people have for which they are waiting for answers, since it has been the country's own leadership that has mentioned them.”
In a thread of three posts on Twitter in which he tagged Manuel Marrero, Alexis Castro was especially interested in “economic actors,” the euphemistic Castro jargon that mostly refers to the private sector of the Cuban economy.
“When will the Business Law be presented to the ANPP [National Assembly of People's Power]? When will the legal modifications be announced to 'improve' the operation of MSMEs?" were the first two questions asked to the prime minister.
“How is the review going to expand the activities authorized to be carried out by economic actors? When will the Institute of Economic Actors come into operation?” he then asked.
Lastly he asked“When will the promised information be given about the “errors committed” in the design and implementation of the monetary system?”
Although his questions were not answered by the aforementioned nor by other Castro leaders, his public appeal to the regime generated an interesting section of reactions on Twitter,many of them questioning whether Alexis considers himself part of the town.
“Question: who is this individual who believes he is qualified to 'respectfully present other doubts that the people have?' Is he part of that town he talks about? "And you ask on behalf of the 'people'? You who have not been part of the people even in your dreams? Ask your uncle. Did you ask your daddy? How funny the farm is!!"; "If I went to the winery and the markets, if I rode buses, if I stood in lines for everything like the people of the 'town' do, perhaps I would really know what that PEOPLE think and want," three commentators pointed out, correcting Alexis' belief in being a ordinary Cuban.
Others questioned whether these are the questions that the people really ask and suggested others more in line with the true feelings of those who Alexis Castro claims to represent.
“I am part of the people and I know thousands more that the questions we ask ourselves every day are not exactly those but: Why don't they release the productive forces? Why are human rights not respected in practice by all for all? said one commentator.
"The people's doubts are: when will the communists leave the country? When will we be able to elect other parties? When will we have freedom in our country?", contributed another.
"Another question that the Cuban people ask isHow long does a Government State need to realize that its system is useless, is obsolete, that its system failed and that communism, deceptively implemented, has no basis or solutions for the needs of the people?"questioned a third commentator.
The fact that Alexis' "doubts" dealt with the economy and business was also seen by some as an indication of "legalizing family theft."
"You are asking a lot of questions Alexi. Your father would have already imprisoned you for asking questions. When your father was alive and he was constantly wrong you didn't question as much", declared Taoro8 jokingly.
There was no shortage of those who recommended that the son of the late dictator go back to the times when his father ruled to understand the true causes of the current disaster.
“Sir, don't you know that all of this emanates from a single brain, that of your late father, and compacted into the same shit, the PCC?” said doctor Lucio Enríquez.
“Your father never took responsibility for the ‘mistakes committed’ since he led the country for almost 50 years. By the way, your family has also become rich from the 'private sector' by making sweaters for the Battle of Ideas and exporting mahogany. “Are they going to be transparent?” asked journalist José Raúl Gallego, for his part.
"Explaining respectfully? Why don't you start by acknowledging that we owe the current catastrophe to the HP of your father and the entire Castro family? The only ones to blame are you. And of course, the problem will not be resolved with those who caused the problem." , pointed out a third Internet user.
Alex Castro, the non-conformist
It is not the first time in recent months that Alexis Castro, 61, an engineer by profession and photographer by vocation, has expressed dissatisfaction and publicly questioned the government's management.
In August 2023, he opened a Twitter account in which he defines himself as a "patriotic Cuban" who follows the ideology of Varela, Martí and July 26.
Last Octoberattacked the centralized management of the Ministry of Agriculture, whom he accused of food shortages in the country.
"Concepts such as the sense of ownership, the necessary autonomy to invest, associate, produce and market, the formation of prices, which should not be mandated..." are not understood, he said then.
He did not stop there and deepened his analysis, ensuring that "nor is the role of each form of ownership and management in agriculture fully understood, from the state to the private peasant, passing through the various cooperative forms, each one has its place and function."
A few weeks ago, at the end of March, he stated thatRevolution does not mean "immovable structures and methods."
On that occasion, Alexis used his father's principles and cited the Moncada program, where according to him, there is "everything we must change" in the country, so that "no one loses and we all win."
"At this moment it is more necessary than ever to be clear about the meaning of Revolution, which are not structures or immovable methods adopted by historical conditions, but rather an emancipatory fact that was born with defined objectives," he stated.
Each of his public interventions generates a wave of questions that, as expected, emphasize his lineage and remind him of the causality of his paternal inheritance in the ultimate cause of the situation in Cuba today.
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